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Human Rights Watch welcomes Chuckie Taylor's trial

Written by Wellington Geevon Smith

Thursday, 25 September 2008

The New York-based Human Rights Watch says it welcome the trial of the son of detained former President Charles in the United States.

Charles MacArthur Taylor, Jr. commonly called Chuckie is to face trial for crimes he allegedly committed when his father was in power in Liberia.

Human Rights Watch said the trial is significant as the first ever prosecution under a US law that makes it a crime to commit torture anywhere in the world.

The group argued the trial is also significant as one of the first prosecutions for human rights abuses committed in Liberia in recent years.

It hopes the case will spark increased focus in Liberia on the need for other prosecutions of the most serious human rights violations committed in Liberia.

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